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Buddhist Ethics: A Philosophical Exploration
Author Garfield, Jay L. (著)
Date2022
Pages231
PublisherOxford University Press
Publisher Url https://academic.oup.com/
LocationNew York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國]
SeriesBuddhist Philosophy for Philosophers
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
NoteJay L Garfield is Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Buddhist Studies, Chair of the Philosophy department, and director of the Logic program at Smith College. He is also Visiting Professor of Buddhist Philosophy at Harvard Divinity School, Professor of Philosophy at Melbourne University and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Central University of Tibetan Studies. He has taught in Australia, Singapore,Japan and Germany and is a regular lecturer at major universities, Buddhist Studies centers and research institutions around the world. Professor Garfield is author, co-author, or editor of 30 books and over 180 articles and book reviews.
AbstractBuddhist Ethics presents an outline of Buddhist ethical thought. It is not a defense of Buddhist approaches to ethics as opposed to any other, nor is it a critique of the Western tradition. Garfield presents a broad overview of a range of Buddhist approaches to the question of moral philosophy. He draws on a variety of thinkers, reflecting the great diversity of this 2500-year-old tradition in philosophy but also the principles that tie them together. In particular, he engages with the literature that argues that Buddhist ethics is best understood as a species of virtue ethics, and with those who argue that it is best understood as consequentialist. Garfield argues that while there are important points of contact with these Western frameworks, Buddhist ethics is distinctive, and is a kind of moral phenomenology that is concerned with the ways in which we experience ourselves as agents and others as moral fellows. With this framework, Garfield explores the connections between Buddhist ethics and recent work in moral particularism, such as that of Jonathan Dancy, as well as the British and Scottish sentimentalist tradition represented by Hume and Smith.
Table of contentsPreface ix
Part. I Structure
1. Methodological introduction 3
2. The Broad structure of Buddhist ethics 18
3. Buddhist Ethics as moral phenomenology 29
4. Agency and moral psychology 43
5. Narrative in Buddhist ethics 53

Part. II Doctrine
6. The four noble truths 71
7. Path as a structure for Buddhist ethics 90
8. The six perfections in the Mahayana 109
9. The Brahmaviharas and the achievement of nonegocentricity 131
10. The importance of vow 152

Part. III Contemporary issues
11. Naturalism 169
12. Engaged Buddhism 180
13. Coda : what Buddhist ethics brings to the table 199

References 203
Index 215
ISBN9780190907631 (hc); 0190907630 (hc)
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